Staff Picks
Outwardly from Earth’s Center
Rosa Barba
2007
22 Minutes
Staff Picks
Date
November 1-30, 2023
Outwardly from Earth’s Center is a fictitious narrative about a society on an unstable piece of land that is in danger of disappearing. The situation requires the population’s collective initiative in order to secure their survival both as a society and as individuals. The fictional setting is reference to Gotska Sandön, a Swedish island north of Gotland in the Baltic Sea that moves by approximately one meter each year. Fictitious reports by experts draw a surrealist picture of the phenomenon. The experience of what might at first seem to be a beautiful documentary develops into a more abstract and slightly absurd picture of the inhabitants’ struggles and vulnerability.
Presented as the November 2023 edition of e-flux Film’s monthly series Staff Picks.
This edition of e-flux Staff Picks is co-presented by the Jonas Mekas Estate and Re:Voir.
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